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Jerusalem:::

History of the Holy Land - Part 1 11

1. How many times in the past 30 centuries has Jerusalem been conquered, destroyed and rebuilt?

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2. A thousand years after a city was founded at the base of the mountain, a warrior-king conquered the city in the name of the new God, the only God, ________________________.

3. The warrior-king was __________________ who made the _______ tribes of the Jews into one.

4. There was no evidence of God, except the Ark of the Covenant. David’s son, Solomon, placed the Ark on the mountain and build a great ________________________________ around it.

5. 3000 years later, that holy mountain is hidden under a great platform, the Temple Mount. No temple remains, but Jews from all over the world still gather at the ancient ___________ that supported it.

6. What is packed between the cracks of the wall?

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7. Why does the Wailing Wall have a special mailman?

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8. Directly above the Wailing Wall is the Dome of the Rock, which was built in 691, when Jerusalem was ruled by the _________________________.

9. What happened at the mountain top that lies within the Dome of the Rock that is sacred to both Muslims and Jews? _____________________________________________________________

10. Jews also believe that the Stone of Foundation was the point from which the world was _______________________________.

11. Muslims believe that Muhammad was brought to this rock one night on a winged horse, where he climbed to heaven to talk to the ____________ prophets of Islam and Allah himself.

12. 400 yards away is the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. The holy rock contained in this church is the rock on top of which Jesus was _________________________ and the Holy Sepulcher is the site of his ______________________.

13. King Herrod made Jerusalem on of the greatest cities of the era. His most splendid achievement was the ___________________________________________________, which was later destroyed by the __________________.

14. 70 years after destruction of the temple, Jews were ______________________ from the region.

15. Less than 40 years before the destruction of Jerusalem, a man walked up the steps of the Second Temple. He had come as a pilgrim to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Passover. His name was ______________________. (Palm Sunday)

16. The Christians ruled Jerusalem for over ____________ years.

17. By the time Muhammad died in 632, his followers numbered in the many thousands. _____________ years later, a Muslim army conquered Jerusalem, taking it from the Christians.

18. For the next ____________ centuries, under Muslim rule, Jerusalem enjoyed a period of prosperity and ___________________________________ for all religions.

19. In 1096, Crusaders answered the call of the pope to drive the Muslims out. This band of supposedly chivalrous knights ____________________ and pillaged their way across Europe, butchering any __________________ or Muslims that they ran into along the way. They laid siege to Jerusalem for 40 days.

20. But the Christians held the city for less than _________ years before the Muslims recaptured it.